A new global ranking, calculating the vulnerability of 170 countries to the impacts of climate change over the next 30…
Details of the annual International Media Excellence Awards run by the Association for International Broadcasting
Welcome to the AIBs People’s Choice…
The availability of accurate, dependable, concise and clear information on anthropogenic climate change increases every year.
Here is a shortlist of…
The web pages, produced with the support of leading scientists from the Met Office Hadley Centre and others, present an…
UNITED NATIONS — The process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has…
The 2009 State of the Climate report draws on data for 10 key climate indicators that all point to the…
Regions across the world have been buffeted by extremes of weather, drought and floods.
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The two main objectives of the research were to examine global trends in phytoplankton over time and to determine what…
A new interactive Google Earth map showing the impacts of a 4 °C warmer world was launched today by the…
The Independent Climate Change Email Review is being conducted by an expert team, led by Sir Muir Russell KCB DL…
Despite the continued economic crisis, global emissions of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, have remained constant in 2009, as…
Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied…
The SCIAMACHY sensor on ESA’s Envisat satellite has provided scientists with invaluable data on our planet, allowing them to map…
Over 130 dead and 800,000 displaced after torrential rain sees rivers swell and houses hit by landslides
If the world’s major nations fail to enact significant changes in energy and climate policies, global carbon dioxide emissions will…
In this bracing talk, coral reef ecologist Jeremy Jackson lays out the shocking state of the ocean today: overfished, overheated,…
WASHINGTON – Heat waves, storms, sea levels, glaciers, and wildlife migrations are just a few of the environmental indicators that…
This report describes the outcomes from a CSIRO global foresight project. It presents five megatrends and eight megashocks (global risks)…
April 2010 —
The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings today released a new report — “Climate Crisis, Credit Crisis:…
All the data you need to show that the world is warming
April 14, 2010: Posted by: Scott A. Mandia, Professor…
Global warming is continuing to cause enormous devastation on the worlds economies particularly in countries like India. India today, is…
By Richard Black, Environment correspondent, BBC News website, Bonn
The need for a new global climate deal is “greater than ever”,…
Paleo-perspectives on ocean acidification
Carles Pelejero1, , Eva Calvo2 and Ove Hoegh-Guldberg3
1 Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA) and…
By Daniel Zueras
SAN JOSÉ, Apr 1, 2010 (IPS) – Solutions to global warming based on the logic of the market…
The IGBP Climate-Change Index brings together key indicators of global change: atmospheric carbon dioxide, temperature, sea level and sea ice.
About…
Stockholm Resilience Center: Centre director Johan Rockström among prominent list of speakers at State of the Planet 2010.
Rockström was among…
Climate sceptics brush the scientific evidence under the carpet, says centre researchers.
A storm of criticism and climate scepticism is currently…
Dawn of the Anthropocene Epoch?
ScienceDaily (Mar. 26, 2010) — Geologists from the University of Leicester are among four scientists- including…
‘Water Views’: Perspectives on the Global Water Crisis
A global study commissioned by Molson Coors, conducted by GlobeScan and Circle of…
Connecting Voices Globally to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change, Poverty and Economic Recovery
Global Event
On March 25, State of the…
A new study has lowered the carbon pollution threshold or “tipping point” for collapse of the Greenland ice sheet to…
As the world warms, sea levels could easily rise three to six feet this century. But increases will vary widely…
Butterflies are emerging in spring over 10 days earlier than they did 65 years ago, a shift that has been…
Amid a growing call for reducing atmospheric concentrations of CO2 to 350 parts per million, a group of economists maintains…
The climate change debate should be reframed in economic and security terms ahead of a year-end UN summit in Mexico…
Across western North America, huge tracts of forest are dying off at an extraordinary rate, mostly because of outbreaks of…
WASHINGTON, DC, March 16, 2010 – A new study involving scientists from 13 different organizations, universities and research institutions states…
A new assessment of the Arctic’s biodiversity reports a 26 per cent decline in species populations in the high Arctic.
Populations…
They must change to cope with population growth and climate change or face social unrest and urban decay
(SYDNEY) Australia circa…
Almost 10 million people across the Sahel region of West Africa are threatened with a severe food shortage, international aid…
A fascinating paper well worth reading is Denialism: what is it and how should scientists respond? (Diethelm & McKee 2009)…
March 16, 2010
Last month’s combined global land and ocean surface temperature made it the sixth warmest February ever recorded. Additionally,…
WHO, along with UNDP, launch in 2010 the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change. This series…
Population growth, urban development, farm production, and climate change is increasing competition for fresh water and producing shortages so acute…
Australia’s two lead climate science agencies – the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology – have produced a snapshot of the…
JOHANNESBURG, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) – As the level of carbon dioxide increases in the atmosphere, we will probably see…
Verdens dyr og planter udryddes nu hurtigere, end nye arter kan udvikles – for første gang siden dinosaurerne forsvandt fra…
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world’s science academies, has been requested to conduct…
10 March 2010 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the head of the United Nations-backed panel tasked with preparing regular scientific…
